A Year in the Passing

Tonight, is the Churchville-Chili Senior High School Senior Ball. WHAT?! But I just did that. It wasn't even a year ago...but the truth is, it was, and now my brother is going. Where did all this time go? The summer that lasted forever, the classes and days that felt like they would never end, the cold lasting winter and the days awaiting spring. So much has happened in the past year that I don't even know what to say.

One year ago I:

• was living out the last days of my high school life, thinking it mattered.
• was figuring out the friends who would stick with me, and those that would be better of I just let them slide.
• was experiencing a new culture thanks to three great girls who definitely helped pull me through my senior year.
• considered myself done with high school, but I was wrong.
• was dissecting a cat, a great experience.
• was stable.
• had a definite direction of where I was going and what I was doing with my life.

Over the past year I:

• have learned the real truths of college.
• have broken down completely.
• have experienced every possible emotion ever to exist.
• started to branch out.
• secluded myself and pulled in.
• made decisions and changed my mind.
• tried new things.
• learned how to judge people.
• have disappointed, and impressed.
• have swiped a lot of ID cards through a machine.
  

Right now I:

• am looking for a job.
• speak Pittsburghese fluently.
• am a sorority girl.
• am a little lost and unstable.
• am recovering.
• am waiting until the end of summer.
• am not going to see my closest Gheny friend for 8 months.
• know where my real friends are at home.
• have a new outlook based on new experiences.
• am very unsure of what is to come.

It's amazing how much things change in the first year of college.

Mother Knows Best

It is official that my mom has the same solution to every single one of my problems. "Go take a big shot of that vodka" or some other solution involving alcohol. Mom I have been having problems sleeping...well have a couple beers or shots before you go to bed. Mom, my wisdom teeth are coming in and I am teething like a four year old...try rubbing a little vodka on it, then just to make sure, take some tylenol and a couple shots...it should help you sleep too!

There are countless instances. I am just glad I have suck a relationship with my mother that we can comfortably talk about this stuff and that she can actually make those suggestions to me. I just wanted to get this in writing as a reference for when I am in my AA meetings. My mom is turning me into an alcoholic =)